155 - The future of healthcare communication training: Virtual Patients. Will Pamment and Aiden Roberts, SimConverse

Did you know that 60 to 80% of medical errors are attributable to communication breakdown? Will Pamment and Aiden Roberts are the cofounders of SimConverse. They’re two medical students who are passionate about solving the issues in healthcare communication that lead to harming patients. SimConverse creates Artificially Intelligent virtual patients for healthcare communication training. It is a platform for structured communication training. In this episode, Pete, Will and Aiden chat about using better, more scalable and accessible ways of training communications skills to hopefully eliminate numerous medical errors and maybe save lots of lives. This episode helps us to understand how one solution can solve two issues. Learn how you can use virtual patients to improve healthcare communication training, making it more structured, lessening medical errors. Also, get a better understanding of how medical schools approach communication skills and how it can be improved.    In this episode, you go on a journey to explore a new perspective on solving communication issues in healthcare.  Check out the episode and full show notes here. To see the latest information, news, events and jobs on offer at SimConverse, visit their Talking HealthTech Directory here.  Loving the show?  Leave us a review, and share it with some friends, become a THT+ Member for early release, ad-free and bonus episodes of the podcast, access to our online community forum, and free tickets to our quarterly summits.  For more information visit here. Mentioned in this episode:Sign Up to the Free Talking Healthtech NewsletterSign up to the free Talking HealthTech newsletter for weekly digital health news, events, jobs, partner updates and Pete’s take on what matters across the sector: talkinghealthtech.com/newsletter